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Principal Product Manager, Marketplace Outcomes

Handshake

San Francisco (CA)

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USD 150,000 - 230,000

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Job summary

Handshake is looking for a driven Principal Product Manager to lead their Marketplace team, responsible for enhancing user experience and increasing qualified applications within their marketplace. This role involves strategizing product development, collaborating cross-functionally, and ensuring alignment with company objectives. The ideal candidate will have deep customer insights and experience in managing large-scale products.

Benefits

Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
16 Weeks paid parental leave for birth giving parents
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Annual $2,000 stipend for skill development
Monthly internet stipend
Free lunch provided 3x a week
Flexible time off policy
Home office stipend for a productive workspace
401k Match up to $1,200 per year

Qualifications

  • Customer expert who prioritizes the needs of customers.
  • Experience in scaled product with 1M+ active users.
  • Strong analytical and systems thinking skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product strategy and execution for high-impact product areas.
  • Set clear goals for squads and ensure alignment on roadmap.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cohesive execution.

Skills

Customer expertise
Marketplace fluent
Strong systems and analytical thinker

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Your impact

Handshake is hiring a Principal Product Manager for our Marketplace team to help us deliver a world class consumer and employer experience. More than half of college students and over 1 million employers in the US are connecting on Handshake. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to deliver a roadmap that grows the ‘outcomes’ within our jobs marketplace, leading to more qualified applications, and successful hires for both candidates and employers. You’ll also be partnering with our employer team to introduce more channels for job promotions that help employers reach their target audiences with jobs and other content.

Your impact

Handshake is hiring a Principal Product Manager for our Marketplace team to help us deliver a world class consumer and employer experience. More than half of college students and over 1 million employers in the US are connecting on Handshake. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to deliver a roadmap that grows the ‘outcomes’ within our jobs marketplace, leading to more qualified applications, and successful hires for both candidates and employers. You’ll also be partnering with our employer team to introduce more channels for job promotions that help employers reach their target audiences with jobs and other content.

Your role

In this role, you’ll lead one of several high-impact product areas central to growing the overall pool of qualified applicants on the platform. You may own new jobs search or application experiences, introducing new promotion channels for jobs and/or content, the end-to-end job creation process, dynamic pricing for promotions, and/or reporting and analytics on promoted objects. The exact scope will depend on your strengths, interests, and our evolving roadmap — but all of these areas are critical to our mission of building a more efficient marketplace.

  • Product Strategy. You’ll ensure that your squads have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Marketplace Outcomes team and company strategy.
  • Leadership. You’ll represent your squad and product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap. You’ll inspire your team on the product vision.
  • Goal Setting. You’ll hold your squads accountable to clear goals that ensure they are tracking effectively towards their strategy. You can model quantitative impacts across different market segments.
  • Planning and Execution. You’ll lead your team and stakeholders in prioritizing and collaborating on the roadmap while ensuring we have appropriate alignment with appropriate stakeholders. You will also exercise influence on adjacent product areas and organization-wide strategy.
  • Collaboration. You’ll work closely with other key leaders in the R&D team (i.e. design, marketing, engineering, data) as well as leaders in other lines of businesses (E.g. GTM, consumer growth, employer experience) to ensure cohesive strategy and execution.

Your Experience

  • Customer expert. You understand the needs of your customer better than anyone else and prioritize them everywhere, grounding your approach in data and research.
  • Marketplace Fluent. You think holistically across the different user types and their respective incentives in a marketplace to create “matched”, end-to-end, successful products.
  • Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations
  • Experience working in scaled product with 1M+ active users

Bonus areas of expertise

  • PM experience leading the development and launch of net new, “zero to one” consumer products
  • Experience managing a consumer product with significant scale (i.e. 10MM+ users)

About Us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

What We Offer

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

Benefits Below Apply To US Employees In Full-time Positions.

  • Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.
  • 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
  • Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
  • Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
  • ???? Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
  • Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).
  • Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.
  • Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.
  • 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
  • All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 13 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.
  • Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
  • Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!
  • Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchases such as fitness classes, gym memberships, work-from-home setup, and more.

Looking for more? Explore our mission, values and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.

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Employment type
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  • Industries
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